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glort wrote:
It's unbelievable what we have to put up with!
I mean people go and have these weddings as if it's about them, not us being able to capture perfect pictures. Why would you have a wedding if you are not going to put effort into making things as perfect and easy for the photographer as possible and have them as the first and most important criteria of the day?
It just makes no sense does it?
These couples have their ceremonies in Churches that no one bothered to think about putting lighting into that would be perfect for our photos, they have the weddings in reception places with equally poor lighting we have to go to the trouble of putting our own lights in...... I mean geez, They don't even consider the time of day for pictures, instead they work around the availability of the church.
You'd think you were dealing with god the way these churches don't consider or take into account our specific needs.
Why dosen't the minister meet with us beforehand to make sure the lighting in the place is exactly the way each and every shooter that honours their church with their presence wants it? Damn poor service if you ask me.
Couples who are not A grade international models expect us to photograph their everyday looks, they have average people in their wedding party..... Geez they don't even put any effort into selecting highly photogenic parents for our pictures!
no foresight or consideration what so ever!
Forget about the non stunning spouses, but then they go invite 100 family and friends without pre selecting them on a looks and photogenic basis. They aren't even trained where to stand so they are in the right spot at the right time for every pic we want to take. That's why we have unworkable fiascos like this that ruin our visions of perfection.
It's just not fair!!
And don't even get me started that some of these family and friends want to intrude on our god given moral and legal rights to be the only people on earth to own and operate a camera!
Talk about selfish!!
And to top it all off, some of these people even have the audacity to have their weddings on days where it raining or overcast or otherwise less than perfect for the shooters needs! For crying out loud, they have like a year or more to pick a perfect day, whats so hard about choosing to have you wedding on a photographically perfect day instead of a crappy one? Not once have I ever heard of a B&G expressing a modicum of gratitude by doubling the photographers fee as a small token of their appreciation for them coming out on a cool or undesirable weather day.
Dunno how shooters put up with it really I don't!!
It's a good job there are saints with cameras like us in the world to bear the burden of these ungrateful and take their money even if we don't get to shoot perfect pics and have everything pre arranged just the way we like it.
I think it's about time we stood up for ourselves if guests are going to stand during the wedding dance.
We should say " Look, if you are going to make this whole wedding thing about you instead of us getting the worlds most perfect picture, you can forget about paying us thousands to cover it, we are just going to go and pay out of out own pocket for professional models, stunning locations, set designers and lighting guys so we can get pictures as perfect as we want them".
That would show them.
Maybe then they would realize the only reason for putting on a wedding in the first place is so the shooters can get perfect pics with no effort so they can blog what great photographers they are.
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As a self employed person most of my life but not a professional photographer.And I do shoot for $ on occasion..weddings..events.I think your perspective and sarcastic soliloquy is dead on..Bravo!! .Doug M
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